Born. To Liberty, blatant weekly, after four months of pictorial preparation on the part of "Lil" & "Sandy," serialized Libertynes; a boy; on the cover.

Married. Marion W. Brashears, vocational analyst, niece of potent Publisher John C. Shaffer (Chicago Post); to Irving J. Gill, architect, of San Diego; at Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.

Married. Ray Atherton, American Charge D'Affaires in London; to Maude Hunnewell, social scioness of Boston; in London.

Divorced. Harvey Arthur Lee, 35, retired British dealer in antiques; by Nora McMullen Lee, 49, of Litchfield, Conn., onetime wife of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, daughter of an owner of the Guinness Brewing Co. of Dublin; for failure to provide. Mr. Lee's petition charging mental cruelty had been denied. In 1910 Mr. Mellon, 26 years her senior, sued for divorce. Children of the Mellon-McMullen marriage are Ailsa, who married David K. E. Bruce in 1927 and Paul, popular Yale student.

Elected. Col. George M. Sliney, Wyoming pioneer, lifelong friend of Buffalo Bill, first to officiate at a wedding and preach a funeral sermon in the Big Horn Basin; to be mayor of Thermopolis, Wyoming.

Elected. James Taber Loree, younger of the two sons of Chairman Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, to be a member of the D. & H.'s board of managers. He has been a vice president since 1923. His brother, Robert Fresnel Loree, is vice president of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan, in charge of its foreign department. Their uncle, W. C. Loree, is a director of the Kansas City Southern Railway, of which their father is chairman.

Died. Dr. William Alexander Young, Director of Medical Research at Accra, Africa, former assistant to the late Dr. Hideyo Noguchi; of yellow fever. Searching for a yellow fever vaccine, Professor Adrian Stokes of London, Dr. Noguchi and Dr. Young have been successive victims of the disease within the last year.

Died. Mrs. Margaret Booker Dawes, wife of President William Ruggles Dawes of the Chicago Association of Commerce, cousin of U. S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes; in Chicago.

Died. M. Villers, head gardener at the Chateau de Bonapart, Paris, a suicide, because frost had killed off all his begonias, each & every one.

Died. Charles Edward Montague, 61, satirical author (Disenchantment, Right off the Map, etc.), for a quarter century chief editorial writer of the Manchester Guardian; of pneumonia; in Manchester, England. At the outbreak of the War he dyed his greying hair, understated his age to enlistment officers, later fought in front line trenches and was cited three times for bravery.

Died. Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, Lord High Steward of Retford, Master Forester of Dartmoor, Keeper of St. Briavel's Castle, Earl of Lincoln and seventh Duke of Newcastle, 63; following a long illness; in London.

Died. George White Doane, 74, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New Amsterdam Gas Co.; of heart disease; on the 8:49 (a.m.) train from South Orange, N. J. An attempt to board the 8:33, his usual train to Manhattan, precipitated the heart attack.

Died. General Li Yuan-hung, last constitutional president of China, deposed in 1923; at Tientsin (see p. 18).

Died. Mrs. Dan Waggoner, 86, widow of pioneer Dan Waggoner, who fought Texan outlaws and Indians to establish a ranch covering thousands of acres, including prolific oilwells, and founded one of the Southwest's biggest fortunes. Mrs. Waggoner's sister married Dan's son by his first wife.